Bar/restaurant mural captured the ’80s — bad styles and good times

Before Burger Madness, there was mural madness at Arthur’s, the Hyde Park restaurant/bar. From 1981 to 1992, Jerry Dowling painted
caricatures of 142 regulars on a 44-foot wall. The characters are still
there — on the mural, anyway — but the character has changed.

No-frills affair is all about the food

First located at Fountain Square and
Findlay Market under a rather dainty tent in the summer months this past
year, Eli’s BBQ has graduated to the restaurant scene — and with
honors. What was once a humble street vendor with one impeccably
prepared item on the menu — the perfect pulled pork sandwich — is now
nestled in the East End.

These two museums don’t just have
wonderful art — they also both have fantastic cafés. I recently
undertook a mission to dine at both: CAM’s Terrace Café and the Lindner
Family Café at the Taft Museum. I decided that I wouldn’t just eat at
the cafés — I would also see what treasures the museums had to offer.

Three restaurant picks for UC back-to-schoolers

Gangs of students and their parents are swarming UC’s campus these days. They’re there to get oriented — figure out where to buy books, how to register, where to work out, how to scope out the frat party with the best beer. You know, college stuff.

Housed in a former Frisch’s Big Boy, Parkside Cafe (1024 E. McMillan St., Walnut Hills, 513-221-2026) keeps it real with its own drive-thru window, soup and salad bar and what seems to be the original Frisch’s furniture. They must still have the same ice machine, too, because the ice was Frisch’s ice.